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Realtime Final Project - Ferrofluid and DC motors

The Ferrofluid (100ml) and 4 DC motors are now in our possession so today me and Jay started to look at getting the relay working on Arduino again. We are now using this earthquake RSS feed, that tells us the last 50 earthquakes around the globe that updates in realtime. We had to change the RSS as the other one (although provided from the same geological survey) was not structured properly. We have been thinking more about how to display the ferrofluid, and we have decided to base the layout on a compass. North, South, East and West. Then we will work out the overall position of the last 4 earthquakes and display it in the appropriate North, South, East, West ferrofluid dish so the user can see which area has the most activity.

Now the updated plan of how the set up will be constructed will be like this...